Quotes About Equality

If life were one long grade school, women would be the undisputed rulers of the world.

Though it would become fashionable for nineteenth-century feminists in other denominations to drop the promise of obedience in marriage vows, there was no such clause in the Quaker ceremony, because there was no, in Lucretia's words, 'assumed authority or admitted inferiority; no promise of obedience.

Mott saw anti-slavery, peace, and women's rights as part of the same reform impulse to liberate the individual from the bonds of tradition, custom, and organized religion.

At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.

Equality isn't an idea; it is a practice. We practice it when we don't treat other people or other animals as objects.

Dominance functions best in a culture of disconnections and fragmentation. Feminism recognizes connections. Imagine

Justice should not be so fragile a commodity that it cannot be extended beyond the species barrier of Homo Sapiens.

Privilege resists self-examination, but exclusion does not.

Being treated with politeness, consideration, even respect is different from being treated as an equal.

The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Religions centered on the worship of a male God create "moods" and "motivations" that keep women in a state of psychological dependence on men and male authority, while at the same legitimating the political and social authority of fathers and sons in the institutions of society.

If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?

Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Theologians frequently assert that God has no body, no gender, no race and no age. Most people state that God is neither male nor female. Yet most people become flustered, upset or even angry when it is suggested that the God they know as Lord and Father might also be God the Mother, or Goddess.

Images of the Goddess help to break the hold of "male control" that has shaped our images not only of God, but of all significant power in the universe.

We need to build a new cooperative social order out beyond the principles of hierarchy, rule out competitiveness. Starting in the grass roots local units of human society where psychosocial polarization first began, we must create a living pattern of mutuality between men and women, between parents and children, among people in their social, economic, and political relationships and between mankind and the organic harmonies of nature.

Math and science need to be made more hospitable places for women. And women need all the growth mindset they can get to take their rightful places in these fields.

Hierarchy means very little to me. Let's put together in meetings the people who can help solve a problem, regardless of position.

Before we judge, let's remember that effort isn't quite everything and that all effort is not created equal.

Antes de juzgar, recordemos que el esfuerzo no lo es todo, y que hay esfuerzos que parten en desventaja.

In one way or another, all of us are blind to whatever privileges life has handed us, even if those privileges are temporary

Women do not benefit from doctrinaire regulations of the one right way to be